{"id":25813,"date":"2016-05-17T18:16:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T01:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/a-barefoot-run-might-be-a-brain-booster"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:49:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:49:06","slug":"a-barefoot-run-might-be-a-brain-booster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/a-barefoot-run-might-be-a-brain-booster","title":{"rendered":"A Barefoot Run Might Be a Brain Booster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-barefoot-run-might-be-a-brain-booster.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next time that you decide to run barefoot in the rain, etc. there is a health benefit that you\u2019re receiving in the form of enhancing your brain.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>FRIDAY, May 13, 2016 (HealthDay News) \u2014 Runners who want to boost their brain function should consider taking their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/running\/article.htm\" rel=\"sub\">running<\/a> shoes off, new research suggests.<\/p>\n<p>The study found that after running barefoot, participants saw improvements in working memory, or the ability to recall or process information. Running in shoes, however, didn\u2019t result in the same advantage, researchers said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe little things often have the greatest impact. This research shows us that we can realize our cognitive potential and enjoy ourselves at the same time,\u201d said study leader Ross Alloway in a University of North Florida (UNF) news release.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/script\/main\/art.asp?articlekey=195740\">http:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/script\/main\/art.asp?articlekey=195740<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next time that you decide to run barefoot in the rain, etc. there is a health benefit that you\u2019re receiving in the form of enhancing your brain. FRIDAY, May 13, 2016 (HealthDay News) \u2014 Runners who want to boost their brain function should consider taking their running shoes off, new research suggests. The study [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50469,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25813\/revisions\/50469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}